„4K restoration means each frame of the disparate film elements is scanned at 4,000 lines of resolution (an average TV is 525 lines), very close to the resolution of film… „To my knowledge, to do all this work in 4K and also present the results in 4K is a first,“ says Crisp, referring to the digital cinema copies that can be made from Strangelove’s digital master. (Of course, traditional 35mm prints can be struck from the film’s new, fine-grain negative.)“

„For decades, films were stored at labs; until the late 1980s studios didn’t have their own storage facilities. Attitudes changed with the rise of home video in the 1980s; in the past decade, the DVD market has become the fuel for increased restoration and preservation activity. „Suddenly the quality level was substantially raised and the studios have had to go back to their libraries,“ Crisp says. „The advent of digital technology, which is largely what this conference is about, is the most important development .“